DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A man was arrested for viciously beating his ex-girlfriend and holding her captive in her own car for hours before speeding away and crashing into a motorcyclist, police said.
The 40-year-old victim met with her 23-year-old ex just before midnight on July 27 to pick up some of her belongings, according to police.
As they were sitting in her car in front of 258 Livingston St., he took her cellphone and keys, holding her against her will in the car for several hours, police said.
During the harrowing ordeal, he punched her in the face, causing her to hit her head on the driver's side window, grabbed her purse and struck her in the face with its chain, grabbed her hair and cut her finger with a knife, according to police and prosecutors.
“You are not going anywhere, you are mine,” he said during the attack, prosecutors said.
The woman was eventually able to get out of the car and hide, police said.
The ex-boyfriend then drove her car down Atlantic Avenue, but police were able to catch up with him after he struck a motorcyclist while making a U-turn, according to police.
The motorcyclist suffered minor injuries, and the ex-boyfriend was arrested, police said.
He was charged with several counts of robbery, assault, criminal contempt, grand larceny, menacing, reckless endangerment, unlawful imprisonment, petit larceny, unauthorized use of a vehicle, criminal possession of stolen property and harassment, prosecutors said.
He is being held on $10,000 bail and a temporary order of protection was issued against him, court records show.
He is due back in court on Jan. 27.
His attorney declined to comment on the case.
